Candidate Merricott's Summary

Candidate Davis delivered his 5 paragraph order covering most of the key points associated with the order. SNC’s orientation was confusing; SNC briefed that the current location was where the cache was located, then proceeded to state that the fire team needed to advance to the second set of grid points to complete the objective. This information is confusing and is proof that the fire team leader did not fully comprehend the order briefed to him. SNC stuttered consistently, displaying his uncertainty of the information that he was relaying. SNC improperly stated his TCM’s and informed his team they would utilize a column formation from the “assault to attack” and a column from the “attack to assault”. Upon reaching the objective, the fire

Candidate Jordan delivered an in depth five paragraph order. SNC posted security ensuring that the safety of the fire team was not put at risk. SNC had a good initial plan and proceeded to move the fire team towards the objective. SNC moved the fire team through the woods with minimal opposition; SNC maintained communication and good dispersion. Upon receiving enemy fire SNC suppressed the enemy by assaulting the enemy. SNC pushed through the objective to ensure that all enemy were killed. However, SNC forgot about the weapons cache and commenced to conduct a hasty 180, followed by a consolidated 360, and then an ACE report. SNC, in his haste to complete the problem, completely forgot that the mission was not only to subdue the enemy

Candidate Hairston was confident and thorough when briefing his order. Although confident and thorough while briefing, Candidate Hairston failed to ask fire team members if they had any questions at the end of his brief. This caused a little confusion, leaving fire team members with unanswered questions. Prior to the execution phase SNC posted security and ensured security was able to hear everything in the event he had to replace a fire team member. During the start execution phase, SNC did not utilize the gear provided and attempted to use his fire team members as a means to traverse the obstacle. For more than two and a half minutes, fire team members were standing around waiting for direction, not progressing towards mission accomplishment,

Candidate Trapane was very confident, fluid, and natural when briefing his order. However, his order omitted a major paragraphed or failed to explain subparagraphs. For example, while briefing medical evacuations SNC stated, "If you get injured let us know and we will take care of it." Prior to execution, SNC posted security and ensured they routinely gave situation reports. SNC looked at the obstacle to gain intelligance prior to devisining an inital plan. During points of friction, SNC was able to make a decision. However, he was not in the most advantageous spot to communicate and observe his fireteam. Consequently, his decisions were delayed and based off of information that was inaccurate. SNC allowed his fire team members to make

Candidate Goff immediately addressed security before briefing his order. SNC briefed in a rushed manner using many “ums” and “uhs,” showing he lacked confidence in his plan. When briefing, he referred to the scenario as an obstacle instead of treating it as a tactical situation. His fast brief was difficult for his fire team to follow, evident by their confusion at the beginning of the mission even though the initial plan was well developed. SNC had to direct his fire team’s actions he had just briefed in order for them to execute. This candidate lost his tactical and situational awareness, evident by his loud instructions throughout the task and the fire team dragging their weapons through the sewer tunnel making the execution extremely loud.

SNC gave a detailed brief that outlined a precise plan that was coherent and directed towards mission accomplishment. SNC contradicted a well thought out plan of action with a monotone voice and his use of filler words, such as, uh and um, coupled with a lack of passion. The lack of passion was seen in his sense of urgency as SNC spent 80% of his time briefing his 5 paragraph order that adversely affected his sense of urgency. SNC was able to secure the objective quickly, but loss situational awareness of his surroundings and enemy position that initially created confusion when engaged by the enemy. SNC was able to make clear and concise decisions in an appropriate amount of time that efficiently utilized his fellow candidates. This expedited

Candidate Beauregard effectively delivered his five paragraph order, covering the majority of the key points regarding this problem however, the order deviated from the logical order and sequence of paragraphs which caused key points to be missed during brief. SNC wasted valuable time gathering notes and thoughts prior to briefing the fire team. SNC did not fully comprehend the mission, as he briefed that the reason for the mission was to ensure safe movement of friendly forces vice to gain intelligence on enemy forces. While briefing the Execution, SNC did not cover key points such as the azimuth and the distance of the cache from the current location. SNC’s brief was lengthy in nature; fire team was nearly overlapped by another fire team

Candidate Passafume delivered an incomplete brief lacking confidence to his squad. SNC displayed a great amount of confusion as he relayed his brief. SNC failed to properly calculate a proper azimuth or the location of the objective. It was difficult for SNC to read his notes he had taken. SNC failed to properly summarize the Orientation; he simply briefed the coordinates of the current location and the objective. SNC failed to brief Attachments and detachments, as well as the Location of Key personnel. Lack of this information made it difficult for the team to fully comprehend, creating questions at the conclusion of the brief. At multiple times throughout the evolution of the scenario, security was addressed by members of the team. One candidate

SNC briefed every required section of the five paragraph order; however, SNC’s order was out of sequence and would often flip back and forth with his flash cards as he was briefing his order. Specifically, SNC jumped back to his Orientation Paragraph after he started his Situation Paragraph and jumped back to his Situation Paragraph after he completed his Command and Signal Paragraph. He also did not properly task his team members until the very end of his order. SNC did not post security, and as he was shooting his azimuth his team was not in a security posture. Upon contact with the enemy, SNC failed to communicate a proper ADDRAC to his team. This failure made his team bunch up on the objective and his team members ended up crossing

SNC had a good command presence, clear and concise tone of voice, and maintained eye contact with his FT while briefing. The SOM given contained no executable information and was actually nothing more than the Coordinating Instructions. Once the execution began, SNC started giving clear and concise orders. When SNC remained quiet as the FT was negotiating the obstacle, one of the FT members began giving commands and SNC did not make any attempts to belay him. SNC had a hard time making adjustments to his plans. After sending a FT member to the other side of the obstacle and realizing this provided no advantage he had the FT member return. Instead of adjusting, SNC sent another FT member across with the exact same result. Once again another

The part of Prodigy that I believe impacted me the most was when Day went against his previous beliefs and decided to stand up for the New Elector, Anden. This happened whenever the people in the Republic were about to revolt against him. The people of the Republic were not happy with the way that they were being treated, especially after Day escaped from being executed. They were not happy with the trials, their living conditions, and how some people were living in extreme wealth, while some were living in extreme poverty. The problem with the people revolting against Anden was that it was not Anden who wanted to treat the people of the Republic poorly, it was his late father, who happened to be the old elector. After Anden's father passed away and Anden took over as the new Elector, he wanted to make some changes. These changes would be to treat the poor sectors (Towns) better so that

From the content of Candidate Gant's operations order, it was evident that SNC had taken the time to develop a plan for execution. SNC briefed a clear mission statement with a task and purpose, and his scheme of maneuver contained sufficient detail such as direction of movement, form of movement, and identified tactical control measures. What it lacked was a clear plan for establishing security on the objective. However, it was during execution where SNC lost a measure of control and confidence. When the fire team took contact, SNC reacted slowly and indecisively when engaging the enemy. The momentum of the team slowed as one candidate fell behind the rest. At one point, another candidate began controlling the dispersion and movement

Candidate Hogue's initial brief hit the entirety of the 5-paragraph order and contained an abundance of information, but took almost four minutes to disseminate the information. Candidate Hogue briefed a vague and generalized initial plan, outlining what needed to happen, but did not specify who would be tackling what tasks. No direction given in regards to security. While negotiating the obstacle, Candidate Hogue needed to reassess a plan that did not work, and therefore forgot to include the rest of his team; so while he was fixing the problem by himself (tying the rope onto the barrel), the rest of his team stood by and watched silently. Candidate Hogue was able to make modifications to his initial plan, but it added stress to the team because

Candidate Bachmann picked up on every detail of the order and briefed them exactly to his Fire Team during the five paragraph order. He requested to and conducted a leader’s reconnaissance before briefing his Fire Team. Candidate Bachman initially established security, but then pulled the candidate off to help with the problem. This caused a loss of security for approximately five minutes. Candidate Bachman was very engaged and led by example the entire time. He was out in front of his Fire Team in where he was able to identify friction and create solutions. When members of his Fire team failed to understand their assigned tasks, Candidate Bachman physically showed them, which helped maintain momentum and carry the sense of urgency

Candidate Dodson displayed confidence and a general knowledge of the five paragraph order during his brief with some short falls in more specific details in his Mission and Execution paragraphs. SNC had failed to give an in order to or purpose to his mission and a scheme of maneuver that was essentially a long and drawn out repeat of the overall concept of the problem. He did brief a good casevac plan to include a link up with LRC staff then higher headquarters after conducting self/buddy/Corpsman aid. SNC had also failed to address a succession of command as well. His command presence was shown and he was very enthusiastic however he had a poor plan to use his subordinates. Doing most of the work himself, his two team members not on security